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Author:   Monika Bednarek (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney) ,  Helen Caple (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, The University of New South Wales)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780190653941

ISBN 10:   0190653949
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of contents List of tables List of figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction 1. The discourse of news values 2. Why study news values? 3. Key terms 4. Corpus assisted multimodal discourse analysis (CAMDA) 5. Summary and overview of chapters PART I Theory Chapter 2: News values 1. Journalism/Communications Studies 2. Linguistics 3. A new approach to news values Chapter 3: Discursive news values analysis (DNVA) 1. The discursive construction of news values 2. Our list and labels 3. Conceptualising news values 4. Context-dependency, preferred meaning and the target audience 5. Example analysis and concluding remarks PART II Analytical Frameworks Chapter 4: Language and news values 1. Introduction 2. Towards an inventory of linguistic resources 3. Combining news values and example analysis 4. Summary Chapter 5: Visuals and news values 1. Introduction 2. The relationship between images and news values 3. Visual resources in images 4. Other semiotic resources constructing news value 5. Front page news: An example analysis 6. Concluding remarks PART III Empirical Analysis Chapter 6: What is newsworthy about cyclists? 1. Introduction 2. The corpus 3. Analysis of 'typical' news values 4. Analysis of news values around cyclists 5. Summary and conclusion Chapter 7: Image, news values and Facebook 1. Introduction 2. Social media and news feeds 3. Data and methodology 4. Results 5. Conclusion Chapter 8: 'All the news that's fit to share': News values in 'most shared' news 1. Introduction 2. Data and methodology 3. Verbal patterns 4. Visual patterns 5. Visual-verbal patterns 6. Conclusion PART IV Extensions Chapter 9: DNVA as an opportunity for diachronic and cross-cultural research 1. Salacious Fiends and News from the Dead: Diachronic research 2. El terror yihadista, Terroralarm, terrordramat: Cross-cultural research 3. Concluding remarks Chapter 10: Reflections 1. From little things, big things grow (Chapter 1) 2. Surveying the field: It's a jungle out there (Chapter 2) 3. Situating our own approach to news values: Which corner of the jungle do we inhabit? (Chapter 3) 4. The discourse of news values (Chapters 4 and 5) 5. Case Study 1: 'Pedaling' a critical, topic-based approach to DNVA (Chapter 6) 6. Case Study 2: DNVA and the digital disrupters of social media (Chapter 7) 7. Case Study 3: Combining DNVA and CAMDA (Chapter 8) 8. Xinwén jiàzhí, arzeshe khabari, Khabari Iqdaar (Chapter 9) 9. Concluding remarks Appendices References Index

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""Clearly written, rich in examples, and meticulous in its scholarship, this book introduces state of the art methods of news research and extends the linguistic analysis of news and news values to visual and digital news. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in media studies and discourse analysis alike.""--Theo van Leeuwen, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney ""Continuing a large multidisciplinary research project on news discourse, Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple's present study applies a unique combination of discourse analysis, semiotics, multimodal analysis and corpus linguistics in the study of news values. Both in theoretical and in practical analytical terms, and with concrete case studies, also of social media, they thus offer explicit and systematic insight into the criteria that define what is news. Their book also offers an excellent methodological introduction, for students of language, discourse and communication, into advanced methods of corpus-assisted multimodal analysis of the discourse and images of the news.""--Teun A. van Dijk, Professor of Discourse Studies, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona ""This is a timely, well-referenced and well-written book which fills a gap in the literature. The approach taken is up to date in terms of methods used, and covers a wide range of news media types from around the globe. The authors have picked interesting case studies and have an engaging writing style. It offers a significant original contribution.""--Paul Baker, Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University ""In their timely, groundbreaking paperback, Bednarek (University of Sydney) and Caple (Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow) provide in-depth research into the ways the news media industry creates newsworthiness and value through text and imagery. Through excellent interdisciplinary empirical research and their unique analytical model DNVA (discursive news value analysis), the authors challenge traditional assumptions about news value and the ways media organizations and their representatives market contemporary events by giving them newsworthiness and economic value through the creative interplay of language and imagery...Oriented to researchers and professional readers with expertise or specialty in areas such as linguistics, critical discourse, semiotics, communications, and journalism and media studies, the book is both thought provoking and a significant contribution to various fields of study."" --.R. Kahn, University of Cincinnati, Choice ""Overall, this book breaks new ground and makes an original contribution to the field by offering (a) a new theoretical approach to the study of discursive construction of news values, (b) a comprehensive analytical framework for linguistic and visual analysis of news values, and (c) a range of corpus techniques and tools that can generate well-grounded findings. The approach and findings also bear pedagogical implications by informing the teaching and learning of journalistic semiotic practices. Hence, this well-organized and clearly written monograph is recommended for both emerging and established researchers who are engaged in discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, and corpus linguistics, as well as for journalism educators."" --Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Clearly written, rich in examples, and meticulous in its scholarship, this book introduces state of the art methods of news research and extends the linguistic analysis of news and news values to visual and digital news. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in media studies and discourse analysis alike. --Theo van Leeuwen, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney Continuing a large multidisciplinary research project on news discourse, Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple's present study applies a unique combination of discourse analysis, semiotics, multimodal analysis and corpus linguistics in the study of news values. Both in theoretical and in practical analytical terms, and with concrete case studies, also of social media, they thus offer explicit and systematic insight into the criteria that define what is news. Their book also offers an excellent methodological introduction, for students of language, discourse and communication, into advanced methods of corpus-assisted multimodal analysis of the discourse and images of the news. --Teun A. van Dijk, Professor of Discourse Studies, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona This is a timely, well-referenced and well-written book which fills a gap in the literature. The approach taken is up to date in terms of methods used, and covers a wide range of news media types from around the globe. The authors have picked interesting case studies and have an engaging writing style. It offers a significant original contribution. --Paul Baker, Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University

Clearly written, rich in examples, and meticulous in its scholarship, this book introduces state of the art methods of news research and extends the linguistic analysis of news and news values to visual and digital news. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in media studies and discourse analysis alike. --Theo van Leeuwen, University of Southern Denmark Continuing a large multidisciplinary research project on news discourse, Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple present study applies a unique combination of discourse analysis, semiotics, multimodal analysis and corpus linguistics in the study of news values. Both in theoretical and in practical analytical terms, and with concrete case studies, also of social media, they thus offer explicit and systematic insight into the criteria that define what is news. Their book also offers an excellent methodological introduction, for students of language, discourse and communication, into advanced methods of corpus-assisted multimodal analysis of the discourse and images of the news. --Teun van Dijk, Professor of Discourse Studies, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

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Monika Bednarek is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Helen Caple is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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